When Bach goes ALL in... THIS Happens - Beyond The Notes - Bach, Prelude B flat Minor, WTC 1
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Bach was a creative genius. We can all agree on that. But sometimes there is this little "extra". And than, little = unbelievable.
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Absolutely wonderful lecture! Thank you a thousand times. Brilliant!
I love u pls continue this series and cover all of wtc 1 and 2 pls❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Wonderful analysis. My wording would be a conversation between despair and hope with a deep faith. The open ending allows hope...there is another conversation in the future. Please continue this series.
Bach's harmonies, modulations, and chords brings us along fantastic sonic and emotional journeys. The other Composer from that time period who came up with extraordinary chords that are arrived at by the power of the notes and parts that came before, is Domenico Scarlatti. Incredible dissonances, but strangely perfect yet unanticipated. Thanks
Thank you so much for this video! I've been playing this P&F now for 2 months and i've been shocked by how little there is to find online about this piece.
Thank you so much!
Thanks so much
Thank you! Wonderful insights into this amazing piece!
I remember this piece. It was played in the Bach Movie in the 80s? when his first wife died and he came home to visit her. It could be well possible he composed this piece in a status of sadness where he lost a family member.
Yes! The amazing mini series starring Ulrich Thein as Bach, right?
@@CarlosAndres-qj3yv That has to be it, sadly I don't remember the name of the actor who played Bach so I can't say if it really was Mr. Thein.
Grazie mille per la magistrale lezione con il bellissimo clavicordo!
This is my favorit prelude!
I once when playing the work, felt the heartfelt suffering of loss in the prelude. J S Bach lost his mother and father at an early age, lost a wife who died when he was away on a trip to discover her death only upon his return (denied saying a final farewell), multiple children in infancy, an adult son and towards the end of his life, his eyesight which upon the advent of its return, he suffered a stroke and lost his life.
J. Pachelbel lost his wife and all his Children from his first marriage to the Bubonic Plague. He remarried, and his marriage produced two sons and a daughter.
Hello, Wim, your presentation is very powerful and I myself have taken too Bach's creative approach and challenging at that too! Every element has meaning and those subtleties, when observed and absorbed, makes for great scientists, composures, poets, performances, etc! Here is my recent interpretation of Bach's prelude in C Major, Book One, and thank you, Wim! :ua-cam.com/video/FJFYfGp8W5w/v-deo.htmlsi=PUXsUyXi8BzVYC1O
Thankyou for the in depth exegesis Maestro Wim. I don't hear dissonance as much as Jazz extensions played sequentially! Playing Bach is even better than listening to Bach. The typical "Gold Record" these days has
Thanks so much for this going beyond - with mentioning and explaining the ostinato, the harmonic surprises, the dissonances, and the air given in the dialogues - all giving what you've said: the romantic feelings, emotions and moods. Bravissimo!
Tatiana Nicolaeva - superb interpretation on piano and about at the same tempo. Clavichords do not do it for me.
I share your passion for this sublime piece. It transcends space and time.
What a wonderful sharing artist! 🙂🙏🏼🌺
I enjoyed your analysis thanks for this video!
Amazing
I agree with you 100%, however I cannot listen [anymore] to your Klavichord or Cembelo 🙉; I own a beautiful Yamaha Piano, and oooh, I wish I could send it back {in a Teleportation Device} to JS Bach so he would be able to hear his own beautiful music.
JSB would have freaked out about the marvels of modern musical instruments!
He was able to hear his own beautiful music, and although the action on a Yamaha grands that I played in the 1970's (compared to Steinways), he would probably comment as to the first two pianos he was shown by Organ builder (and Harpsichord, Clavichord) Gottfried Silberman, in which "He had praised, and indeed admired its tone...(but)...the action was too heavy." This from J S Bach, having playing Tracker Organs wasn't without great strength, but rather in comparison to the harpsichord and the clavichord. Silbermann worked on copying Cristofori's original action further and did not sell or give away any Fortepianos for ten years. Prior to his first accepted instrument went to any owner, J S Bach saw the improved version which met with his complete approval...
I won't presume put words into J S Bach's mouth, however, the straight strung Silbermann Fortepiano has a lighter action, and cleaner tone, if not as loud as a Yamaha (my favorite piano, I chose a U-1 over a U-3 as the U-3 has the deeper key fall of modern grand pianos). If I was to put words into J S Bach's mouth, this would be a probable assesment of modern piano, he could very well criticized the cross strung format as muddying the bass to into the tenor, the lack of timbral differences (except the extremes of the keyboard compass, essentially sounding almost the same in the Tenor, Alto, and Soprano voices of Fugues) found throughout the compass, the the lack of transparency, greater heaviness in the action in the bass compared to the soprano, how a player would have to pound away the subject of a Fugue to cut through the thickness of the tone. Unlike the Harpsichord (the note sounds when depressed at the top of the keyfall, is incisive) or the directness of the clavichord, note sounds at the bottom of the keyfall. He would praise the Una Corda Pedal for its ease and relief from the mass of sound, and quick shift. As to the soul of the piano, the sustain/damper pedal, Bach would be of mixed emotions: a special effect with its value proportional to the infrequency of its usage, useless for counter point, if some value if sparingly used on held arpeggiated chords, possibly of value for Fermatas if held, but the Baroque implication of Fermata is to improvise a short ad lib, unless on the finally note at the end of the work, and the all the modern pianos seem to sound tonally inferior with the sustain pedal, but with the pedal, similar to lame man he can walk with the crutch, but without the pedal unable to play. The instrument sound does not betray the inaccuracy of timing in students to keep with the beat, compared to the clavichord or the harpsichord, and does not have the bebung (half vibrato of the clavichord) or tonal variety of the stops of the harpsichord. At the end of his life J S Bach's favorite keyboard instrument was...the Lute Harpsichord which he owned two which he had specially built, plus six harpsichords (some may have been used for rentals), and a pedal clavichord, and two clavichord manuals presumely for organ practice, although he did rent clavichords, too. He did not own a fortepiano although he acted as an agent in the sale of one for Gottfried Silbermann when the later was away building an organ with his former student, who built the Lute Harpsichords for J S Bach.
The above might come of a bit hard, however, for a half century plus I've heard/read that J S Bach would have "Loved the Piano", been interested in thej and "loved sustain pedal, etc., which if he wrote music for the modern Yamaha would be entirely different from that which he composed for.
Having played a Baroque model reproduction organ (preferred this instrument to 20th century organs, but would need to lift weights to get in shape first), harpsichord, and although not an 18th century fortepiano, I've played Pleyel and Erard from before mid-19th century, and owned a single manual Italian harpsichord (which I no longer have), and later 19th century square pianos, I would play any of these over any modern piano (even the one in my possession) if I had access to the instrument(s). I've never played a clavichord...
@@Renshen1957 Thanks a lot for your learned, deep understanding and much informed comment.
@@Namuchat Imagine what J S Bach would say about a polyphonic synthesizer, a midi-keyboard, or a digital organ with sampled sounds from the organs he knew and the Symphonic Organs, the Theater Organ, the Cathedral Organ. Inventions of the Devil or wonders to create upon? Or Computers and the internet (definitely the inventions of the Devil) Imagine his reaction to a Symphonic Orchestra, recorded music, electric lights, automobiles, cars, or Jet Airliners?
I believe he would wonder why the majority of the concert pianists play his works incorrectly and too fast. Why orchestras are pitched so high in Chorton instead of Kammerton? He would be at a loss, a feather in the wind, the Lutheran Church and its service so unlike what he knew, and equally confused that the Catholics sing works of Martin Luther in their services.
Possibly, he would be amazed at how universally available his works and others were published, and that The Well Tempered Clavier Pt 1 and Pt 2 became the foundation of Keyboard playing worldwide. And that the saying of the Three B’s originally was originally “Bach is the Father, Beethoven is the Son and fill in the blank as there were two individuals before Brahms is the Holy Spirit, which for a devote Christian such as J S Bach would probably consider blasphemy …